Decommunization and its influence on the birth of the Czech right
No.2(2010)
Abstract
Keywords:
Civic Forum; dealing with the communist past; lustration; Czech right
The paper focuses on the impact of addressing the communist past (decommunization) in the evolution of the Civic Forum and in the formation of the Civic Democratic Party at the beginning of 1990s. The author discusses the explosive potential of removing the communist cadres from public administration and state enterprises, the issue of banning the communist party or lustration. Special attention is paid to disputes over how radical and thorough decommunization should be. The paper shows that the agenda of decommunization became a significant divisive factor within the Civic Forum and served as one of the key issues through which the Civic Democratic Party defined itself.
Civic Forum; dealing with the communist past; lustration; Czech right